New £20 notes with serial numbers as low as 000010 will be auctioned off next month, and could sell for as much as £10,000, This is Money can reveal. The Bank of England is hosting a charity sell-off of the new notes featuring artist JMW Turner, which will be run by London auction house Spink. … Read more
London’s Tube and Heathrow airport hit by coronavirus: Commuter numbers fall and fewer travellers head to Asia as outbreak tightens its grip Heathrow revealed a 4.8 per cent year-on-year decline in passenger numbers While Transport for London boss revealed falling passenger numbers last week The UK government is also not currently telling people to avoid … Read more
Employee ID company leaves 76,000 fingerprints exposed to hackers online along with email addresses and phone numbers Anteus Tecnolgia develops and distributes Fingerprint Identification Systems Security researchers discovered their database was unprotected The bucket contained 76,000 unique fingerprints of employees It also had 81.5 million records that contained emails and telephone numbers Hackers could use … Read more
Britons book more GP appointments when it is cold and rainy – but they make fewer visits when it is sunny or snowing, research shows. Scientists also found patients booked fewer appointments on days last summer that the England football team played in the World Cup. Spikes in attendances also occur after public holidays and … Read more
Britain’s tourist hot spots have seen visitor numbers plummet as coronavirus grips hold of the UK. Bourton-on-the-Water in Gloucestershire is usually a must-see destination and attracts hundreds and thousands of tourists every year. But businesses in the idyllic Cotswold village have seen takings drop by up to 20 per cent for the first time in … Read more